To round off our brief look at different sections of the game, here are some great tips to improve your chess endgame. The King is a Weapon You’ve spent most of the game treating the King like he’s made of glass and hiding him from your opponents pieces. In the endgame the King can become […]
Castling is one of those moves that often confuses people, there are in fact three ways to achieve castling. The first is long (that’s when you castle with the Queen’s side rook), the second is short (King’s side) and the third is artificial (which isn’t really castling but it’s where you end up with the […]
The knight is a great piece for attacking particularly early in the game. The knight fork (where a knight pins a greater value piece in place such as a rook or a queen whilst delivering check and forcing the king to move) is one of the great strategic wins in a game. Here are some […]
There are many different names for suicide chess, such as losers chess, or give-away chess. However they all boil down to the same game in the end. Unlike in ordinary chess where the objective of the game is to capture your opponent’s king, suicide chess is about losing all your pieces before your opponent does. […]